entropicdrift
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- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 2 days ago:
Yeah, for instance the semi-ubiquitous “small TV with a vhs player built in” that was in a ton of mini-vans and kids’ rooms well into the early 2000s only supported analog cable/antenna signals, so it would give the black and white static when there was no signal.
- Comment on I want to feel like a bad-ass wizard 6 days ago:
Hard disagree. Having nearly infinite ranged attacks and being able to run away while attacking made it way easier for me.
Maybe in 2 and 3 what you’re saying is true, but sword and board was way harder for me than playing a mage with a shield.
- Comment on I want to feel like a bad-ass wizard 6 days ago:
Dark Souls. If you play a mage, you’ll be on easy mode, which very much does feel badass in a game so full of terror.
- Comment on We're Back! 1 week ago:
It’s a top-tier remake. Gorgeous animation and lovingly faithful
- Comment on Thankfully there was never a third 2 weeks ago:
Quattro is Char’s 4th identity. Originally he was Casval Daikun, then Édouard Mass while he was hiding out in Europe as a minor, then Char Aznable when he infiltrated the military academy, then Quattro Bajeena after the One Year War.
- Comment on Where can I find the highest quality Star Trek: The Original Series? 2 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, I misread your previous comment. For some reason I was thinking you didn’t like the blu-rays because of the remastered effects.
Sorry for the awkwardness, 100% my bad
- Comment on Where can I find the highest quality Star Trek: The Original Series? 3 weeks ago:
Doesn’t the blu-ray set include both the remastered effects and the original effects? Last I looked it did.
- Comment on You could probably measure someone's age how hanging his balls is. 3 weeks ago:
Nah, it’s not universal, some of it is genetic. The other thing is, how often you wear ball-supporting underwear affects your rate of change of how much your balls sag.
- Comment on What do you call your first cousin's child? 3 weeks ago:
Ah, you’re completely right.
If that person had a kid it’d be your third cousin, but since that person is OP’s parents’ second cousin, they are OP’s second cousin once removed.
- Comment on What do you call your first cousin's child? 3 weeks ago:
For example, my great grandfather’s sister’s grandson was on the USS Thresher when it imploded. What would his relation be to me?
So your first common ancestors are your great great grandparents, so that’s third cousin, and they’re a generation older than you, so once removed. Third cousin once removed.
On that note, what do you call your grandparent’s sibling, vs your great grandparent’s sibling, and so on? Again, Google isn’t being very helpful here.
Grandparents’ siblings are you great aunts/great uncles, additional generations back you add more greats, so great grandparents’ siblings are your great great aunt/uncle. After a while people say “twice great” etc
- Comment on Empires fall 1 month ago:
TIL, thanks!
- Comment on Empires fall 1 month ago:
It’s a Circuit City.
I bought my first PC’s parts all from TigerDirect’s website. Did a bunch of my research for it using their catalogue.
Nowadays I’m just happy to live an hour from a Microcenter.
- Comment on ...I can't even 1 month ago:
Char’s Counterattack 2.22: You <Cannot> Die
- Comment on Jellyfin hardware acceleration docker issues. 1 month ago:
If you switch the devices line to
/dev/drias other have suggested, that should expose the Intel iGPU to your Jellyfin docker container. Presently you’re only exposing the Nvidia GPU.
- Comment on Jellyfin hardware acceleration docker issues. 1 month ago:
QSV is the highest quality video transcoding hardware acceleration out there. It’s worth using if you have a modern Intel CPU (8th gen or newer)
- Comment on 50-50 on this being an actual product 1 month ago:
It’s a vacuum because the Zaku sucks, maybe?
- Comment on Oh no, not again 2 months ago:
Such good, strong hands
- Comment on Oh no, not again 2 months ago:
Also the one about Fry’s brother. The Breakfast Club theme song hits so hard
- Comment on We need a Sponserblock addon for Movies, Tv series and Porn. 2 months ago:
Jellyfin is adding a new MediaSegments API/plugin, which should allow any arbitrary segment of any piece of media to be skipped on (eventually) all Jellyfin clients.
- Comment on There is an alternate universe where there is a fruit that has the flavour of an apple and the texture of a banana 2 months ago:
I think of them as tasting like banana-melon
- Comment on If a deaf person had tinnitus, they'd probably never recognize it 2 months ago:
This is the kinda shit I like to point to when Christians go off about how “perfectly designed” the human form is.
- Comment on Streamyfin, a simple and user-friendly Jellyfin client for iOS and Android 2 months ago:
FYI Jellyflix also supports that
- Comment on Self-hosted dvr 3 months ago:
This. Jellyfin has a direct HDHR integration and works as a DVR directly with one.
- Comment on The term literally means "exactly figuratively" 4 months ago:
It means literally. When used in the colloquial ironic usage it means figuratively, in the same way that “yeah right” means “not at all”
- Comment on Also, you have been turned into a worm. 4 months ago:
The grand hilbert hotel is a metaphor about infinity. If a hotel has an infinite number of rooms, it will have enough room for him. If every room is full, they can all still move up by one room number. Infinity means you can always shift everyone up by 1 room number.
The ship of theseus is a philosophical question about whether it’s still the same ship after having every board and nail in it replaced over centuries of repairs gradually replacing all of its parts.
Asking if Sisyphus is happy is a reference to a famous Albert Camus (French absurdity philosopher) quote “One must imagine Sisyphus happy”
- Comment on Is possible to run a LLM on a mini-pc like the GMKtec K8 and K9? 4 months ago:
So first of all, you shouldn’t involve yourself in your friend’s business. Fraud is generally frowned upon.
But secondly, you know that ChatGPT was trained on the entire internet, right? Like, every book. I don’t think “more books” is gonna help.
I hope you take your computer skills and make something of yourself. Try not to get any more involved in this scheme, seriously. You don’t need this crap marring your reputation.
Besides, there are better reasons/ways to fight the system than helping other people avoid learning.
- Comment on Is possible to run a LLM on a mini-pc like the GMKtec K8 and K9? 4 months ago:
Just that they’re no easier to make fool an anti-AI system than using ChatGPT, Gemini, Bing, or Claude. Those AI detectors also give false positives on works made by humans. They’re unreliable in the first place.
Basically, they’re “boring text detectors” more than anything else.
- Comment on Is possible to run a LLM on a mini-pc like the GMKtec K8 and K9? 4 months ago:
I believe commercial LLMs have some kind of watermark when you apply AI for grammar and fixing in general, so I just need an AI to make these works undetectable with a private LLM.
That’s not how it works, sorry.
- Comment on Is possible to run a LLM on a mini-pc like the GMKtec K8 and K9? 4 months ago:
Quantized with more parameters is generally better than floating point with fewer parameters. If you can squeeze a 14b parameter model down to a 4-bit int quantization it’ll still generally outperform a 16-bit Floating Point 7b parameter equivalent.
- Comment on What's a good NAS and server system under CAD$900 (USD$658)? 5 months ago:
They’re still mounted individually, so you do RAID5 or ZRAID on them, same as if they were internal. You can potentially be bandwidth-limited since USB 3.0 has a 5 Gbps speed limit, but realistically only for reads and you’re still fine in terms of overall performance since they’re all spinning disks anyhow and 5Gbps is fast enough for any media server/NAS unless you’ve got a 10-gig LAN/internet connection and feel the compulsive need to saturate it.